fake

n

(=false painting, antique, passport, document)faux m→ I asked him if the pictures were fakes, but he said they were real→ These identity papers could well be fakes→ It is filled with famous works of art, and every one of them is a fake.
(=false photo)trucage mThe painting was a fake.Le tableau était un faux.His illness is a fake.Sa maladie est une comédie.

(=person)imposteur m→ You're not a real doctor - you're a fake!

adj

(=counterfeit)
[document, passport, ID]faux(fausse)→ The bank manager is said to have issued fake certificates.
[alibi]faux(fausse)→ She denies the charge of perverting the course of justice by providing him with a fake alibi

(=simulate)[+injury, illness]simuler→ Most referees book players who fake injury→ He faked his own death to collect on an insurance policy.[+orgasm]simuler→ My girlfriend just told me she has twice faked orgasm with me. I feel betrayed.[+emotions]feindre→ Jon faked nonchalance ...→ Maturity and emotional sophistication can't be faked.to fake one's own deathsimuler sa propre mort

(=counterfeit)[+document]falsifier[+photo]truquer→ The identity papers looked as though they had been faked→ It's safer to fake a tan with make-up rather than subject your complexion to the harsh rays of the sun ...

At the same time, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons tells us that 200,000 seniors still live in poverty. That same $1 billion used for fake lakes, snacks and hand lotion could have been used for seniors. Increasing their income by $5,000 would give them free groceries for a year. This must change.

Mr. Marcel Proulx (Hull—Aylmer, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, all year long we have been seeing examples of obscene wastefulness: $300 million and a military base here, $1 billion and a fake lake there, $6 billion for major corporations, on top of $10 billion for megaprisons. To satisfy the whims of the ministers, the government finds billions of dollars, but when NGOs ask for a simple one-week extension of the application deadline for a homelessness program? Impossible, it says. Why? [Table of Contents]

The government spent more than $1 billion on things such as fake lakes, snacks, hand lotion and glow sticks. Just think what we could have done with that $1 billion for the many who are struggling in our country. CARP tells us that 200,000 seniors are still living in poverty. That $1 billion could have been put into the hands of seniors to get them out of poverty. We would then not have to say that we still have Canadians, specifically seniors, living in poverty in this country.

In 2010 the government spent more than $1 billion on things such as fake lakes, snacks, hand lotion and glow sticks at the G8 and G20 summits. That is more than $1 billion and yet all it has for seniors living below the poverty line is $300 million. There is clearly a problem. It does not have the same priorities that a lot of us have.

However, the government has this statement which the finance minister sometimes rolls out, “We did a good job before. Remember? After the recession, we did a good job.” It throws out a figure which I am very skeptical about. The government has had a history of a certain amount of fake stuff. We recall the fake lake and the $1 billion it spent on the big conference in Muskoka. There were the fake new citizens at the fake citizenship ceremony. Those fake job figures are part of that trend.